From Richard Parker To Merida - VES Award Winners

It was a good night for “Life of Pi,” “Game of Thrones,” and “Brave” at the 11th Annual Visual Effects Society’s Awards held February 4th. Each entry won four awards each.

“Life of Pi” won the Outstnding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects Driven Feature Motion Picture award, the highest award presented to a nominee. Richard Parker, the Bengal tiger adrift on a lifeboat with Pi won the Outstanding Animated Character in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture award, and the sequence known as “Storm of God” that sets Pi adrift was the focus of the feature’s two additional awards: Outstanding FX and Simulation Animation in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture and Outstanding Compositing in a Feature Motion Picture.

The animated feature“Brave” received the following four awards: Outstanding Animation in an Animated Feature Motion Picture, Outstanding FX and Simulation Animation in an Animated Feature Motion Picture, Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Feature Motion Picture and Outstanding Created Environment in an Animated Feature Motion Picture.

HBO’s television series “Game of Thrones” received the awards for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Broadcast Program, Outstanding Animated Character in a Commercial or Broadcast Program, Outstanding Created Environment in a Commercial or Broadcast Program, and Outstanding Compositing in a Broadcast Program.

Below, please find a complete list of the 2013 VES Award winners:

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects-Driven Feature Motion Picture, Life of Pi: Donald R. Elliott, Susan MacLeod, Guillaume Rocheron, Bill Westenhofer

Outstanding Animation in an Animated Feature Motion Picture Brave; Mark Andrews, Steve May, Katherine Sarafian, Bill Wise

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Broadcast Program Game of Thrones: Volar Morghulis; Rainer Gombos, Steve Kullback, Sven Martin, Juri Stanossek

Outstanding Models in a Feature Motion Picture The Avengers: Helicarrier; Rene Garcia, Bruce Holcomb, Polly Ing Aaron Wilson

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Special Venue Project Despicable Me: Minion Mayhem; Heather Drummons, Joel Friesch, Troy Griffin, Chris Hummel

Outstanding Virtual Cinematography in a Commercial or Broadcast Program ZombiU; Dominique Boidin, Léon Bérelle, Rémi Kozyra, Maxime Luère

Outstanding Virtual Cinematography in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey; Matt Aitken, Victor Huang, Christian Rivers, R. Christopher White

Outstanding Created Environment in a Commercial or Broadcast Program Game of Thrones: Pyke; Rene Borst, Thilo Ewers, Adam Figielski, Jonas Stuckenbrock

Outstanding Created Environment in an Animated Feature Motion Picture Brave: The Forest; Tim Best, Steve Pilcher; Inigo Quilez, Andrew Whittock

Outstanding Created Environment in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture The Avengers: Midtown Manhattan; Richard Bluff, Barry Williams, David Meny, Andy Proctor

Outstanding FX and Simulation Animation in a Commercial or Broadcast Program Guinness: Cloud; Tom Bussell, Neil Davies

Outstanding FX and Simulation Animation in an Animated Feature Motion Picture Brave; Chris Chapman, Dave Hale, Michael K. O’Brien, Bill Watral

Outstanding FX and Simulation Animation in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture Life of Pi: Storm of God; Harry Mukhopadhyay, David Stopford, Mark Williams, Derek Wolfe

Outstanding Animated Character in a Commercial or Broadcast Program Game of Thrones: Training the Dragons; Irfan Celik, Florian Friedmann, Ingo Schachner. Chris Stenner

Outstanding Animated Character in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture Life of Pi: Richard Parker; Erik De Boer, Sean Comer, Betsy Asher Hall, Kai-Hua Lan

Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Feature Motion Picture Brave: Merida; Travis Hathaway, Olivier Soares, Peter Sumanaseni, Brian Tindall

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Student Project Natalis; Daniel Brkovic, David Kirchner, Jan-Marcel Kuehn, Tom Ferstl

Outstanding Real-Time Visuals in a Video Game Call of Duty: Black Ops II; Jason Blundell, Barry Whitney, Colin Whitney

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Commercial Nike: Biomorph; Rafael Colon; Aladino Debert; David Liu; Nicola Wiseman

Outstanding Compositing in a Broadcast Program Game of Thrones: White Walker Army, Falk Boje, Esther Engel, Alexey Kuchinsky, Klaus Wuchta

Outstanding Compositing in a Commercial Chevy 2012 Silverado; Dominik Bauch, Nicholas Kim, Benjamin Walsh

Outstanding Compositing in a Feature Motion Picture Life of Pi: Storm of God; Ryan Clarke, Jose Fernandez, Sean Oharas, Hamish Schumacher

Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Broadcast Program Boardwalk Empire: Episode 308; John Bair, Parker Chehak, Paul Graff, Lesley Robson-Foster

Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Feature Motion Picture The Impossible; Felix Bergés, Sandra Hermida, Pau Costa Moeller

Visionary Award Ang Lee

Lifetime Achievement Award Richard Edlund